tulwar
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tulwar (plural tulwars)
- A type of curved sword used in India and throughout South Asia.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 388:
- Therefore, the Havildar, taking his tulwar, smote one of us lightly on the forearm in the fat, and another on the leg, and a third on the back of the hand.
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sword
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